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Urban Bedbug Onslaught Is A Curse On Dense Living, Recycling, & Energy Efficiency

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nasty bedbug photo
Bedbug. Image credit:wikipedia

Bedbugs are are becoming quite the urban plague again, resurgent and causing much misery in US cities after decades of being a relatively rare problem.

Group sues over Wyoming-to-Oregon gas pipeline

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AP - An environmental group that wants to block construction of a $3 billion gas pipeline from Wyoming to Oregon filed a lawsuit Friday, saying the pipeline will cut across pristine land and harm endangered fish.

The South has renewable energy too!

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by David Roberts.

Barring something unexpected, Democrats are expected to move to cloture on the Senate energy bill on Monday, for a vote on Wednesday.

Math whiz tackles the big carbon sink puzzle

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by Seth Shulman.

Inez Fung is on a mission to
find and account for every gram of heat-trapping carbon dioxide on the planet.
And she knows where most of it is hiding.

House passes oil-spill response bills

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by Agence France-Presse.

WASHINGTON—The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday
voted to overhaul offshore-drilling safety rules and protect whistleblowing
workers in a sweeping response to the disastrous Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

The White
House-backed legislation would end a $75 million cap on energy firms’ liability
for economic damages from oil spills, a controversial provision that has run
into stiff opposition in the Senate.

Photo contest winners: Waste on the water

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by Grist.

We’re down in the dumps. But you get what you ask for, right?

We asked you, our oh-so-sharp readers, to send us your photos of polluted or degraded waterways. The results are not pretty. Plastic trash, invasive weeds, garbage so plentiful it creates its own damn dam –- we feel like we’re floating in the Pacific Garbage Patch. And the video you sent? There are no words.